Results of my first issue decision

[aahz_capone]

Yesterday I recieved a report that ANimal Rights Activists were growing violent and burning fast food restaurants because of the inhuman treatment of chickens. My choices were: ban inhuman food practices, crack down on the vigilantes or impose tax on meat.

The results of my legislation came in today:

"Animal Liberationists are regularly jailed." and Political Freedom has gone from "very good" to "good".

HA! That aughtta teach them! No one takes the law into thier own hands on my shift!

how did you guys fare?

[CapitanGarlic]

My first issue was Public Nudity. I gave them the right to run around naked (but didn't mandate nudity, as was one of the options), and none of the three meters changed. However, in my country description, it notes that many of my citizens run around naked. Interesting...

[ColdWizard]

budget issue with 4 option on what to fund: education, police and military, something about the socially marginalized, and a some nut wanting a tax cut

i chose the police and military option and legislation is currently pending

[Kassiopeia]

I've been fighting crime twice. On the first occassion I decided to increase police spending, thus increasing my tax rate and weakening the economy, and the second time I decided to increase educational spending, with the same effects but on a longer timeframe. Then there was an issue regarding the right of corporations to fund political parties. I turned it down, since IMO one of the big problems of politics is money-grubbing. So my political freedom grade dropped as well.

[General Ludd]

Religous whackos proposed banning the latest harry potter book, instead I issued a statement encuraging people to read fantasy books and excercise their imagination, and now everyone's reading harry potter books.

Including the 14 year-old boys who used to sell lemonade (it was Ubinia's most prominent buisness). Which put a stop to all those entrepreneuring little brats! well worth having people read harry potter, in my opinion. (Now I just need a way of ending the despicable black-market trout farming buisness which has taken place of lemonade selling as the leading industry)



P.S. I'm appalled that the Imperial Republics, a close neighbor of Ubinia, would jail animal liberationists. Truelly despicable!

[reismark]

An organized group of doctors has petitioned the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Alien Races to make donation of vital organs mandatory upon death.

For obvious civil & human rights reasons, Parliament will reject the petition.

[CapitanGarlic]

I just now faced the Coporate Political Funding issue, and turned them down. Corporate bastards...

On a different note, it's good to see that my small nation is growing overnight. Up to six million people.

[ColdWizard]

Originally posted by CapitanGarlic
My first issue was Public Nudity. I gave them the right to run around naked (but didn't mandate nudity, as was one of the options), and none of the three meters changed. However, in my country description, it notes that many of my citizens run around naked. Interesting...

i'm surprised that your economy is listed as "struggling". i would've thought that you'd have booming tourism

[Dis]

mine was to increase defense spending, which I did. My taxes went from 28% to 31%.

[Lemmy]

I've yet to see the result of my first issue, it was "Should democracy be compulsory"
Being the dictator that i am , i off course chose the least democratic decision.

"This raises an interesting issue," says George W. Trax, your brother. "And that is: why do we need elections, anyway? Seems to me it would be much simpler if you just decided what was right, and did it. Wouldn't that save everyone a lot of time?"

other options were

"Compulsory voting makes about as much as sense as having the death penalty for attempted suicide," says civil rights activist Dave Hanover. "You can't force people to be free! You can only give them the choice. Besides, if all those derelicts who can't be bothered to get off their ass once every few years voted, who would they elect? I shudder to think."

and

"It's not contradictory at all," argues political commentator Charles Hanover. "The fact is, if not everyone votes, the outcome isn't truly representative. Some groups--like elderly gun nuts--vote more often than others. That's why always we always end up with such terrible politicians."

This shouldn't change my political freedom meter to much, since it's already at "Outlawed".
I'm still pondering though what to do with the civil rights, should i let it go up, or down....i'm thinking down with them, unless it's a strain on the economy, which is "Struggling" now

[Method]

divorce rates were rising so i legalised gay marriages...it was either that or criminalise divorce, or fine those who don't call their spouse ''darling" at least once a day

parliament is preparing to initiate my decision as we speak.

[H Tower]

the military wants more funding, i'm about to deny them...

[red_jon]

The first was legalising gambling when children were found in casinos.

I said gambling was to be legal, so my crime rates went up but it helped my economy.


The second was if I was to let a Nazi rally be held in my capital. I denied it and now it is illegal to make racist remarks in public



It changed my civil rights from 'superb' to 'excellent' though - which is better?

[red_jon]

Ooh, I just got the compulsory voting one...

[H Tower]

i think superb. hmm, i just realized that my income tax rate is onl 12%, and I'm denying the military more funding